Boost Python, Visual Studio links to wrong boost dll

Question

I used dependency walker and found out that VS did not link to boost_python3_... but to boost_python_... . I removed the non 3 version, but now the linker complains that it cannot find boost_python-vc140-mt-1_60.lib . What do I have to do do link with the Python 3 boost library? Or are the non 3 versions also used for python 3?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, these are options that worked well for me:

1. Go to boost/python/detail/config.hpp and change BOOST_LIB_NAMe to boost_python3 instead of boost_python.

2. Turn auto Linkage of by defining BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB and then explicitly set boost_python3...lib as linker dependency.